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Heartbroken vs Mope - What's the difference?

heartbroken | mope |

As an adjective heartbroken

is suffering from sorrow, especially after a failed romance.

As a verb mope is

to carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout.

As a noun mope is

a dull, spiritless person.

heartbroken

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suffering from sorrow, especially after a failed romance
  • When he told me he didn't want to see me anymore, I was heartbroken

    Synonyms

    * brokenhearted * inconsolable * forlorn * despairing * dejected * disconsolate * distraught * devastated * wretched * grief-stricken * discouraged

    Derived terms

    * heartbrokenly * heartbrokenness

    mope

    English

    Verb

    (mop)
  • To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout
  • To make spiritless and stupid.
  • Derived terms

    * moper * mopery

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dull, spiritless person.
  • (Burton)
  • (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
  • * 2011 : LA Weekly , documenting uses dating to the 1990s
  • The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope ." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman. [http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/]

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